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The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 3

A very bright active young tailor once set off on his travels, which led him into a wood, and as he did not know the way he soon lost himself.

Who acts: bright active young tailor, tailor · What happens: set off, travel, lead, not know, lose · To what, where: tailor, wood, way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright active young tailor, tailor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

detadvmodamodamodamodnsubjadvmodcompound:prtmarknmod:possadvclpunctnsubjparataxisobjcasedetoblpunctccmarknsubjauxadvmodconjdetobjnsubjadvmodacl:relclobjpunctrootADETveryADVbrightADJactiveADJyoungADJtailorNOUNonceADVsetVERBoffADPonSCONJhisPRONtravelsVERB,PUNCTwhichPRONledVERBhimPRONintoADPaDETwoodNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJhePRONdidAUXnotPARTknowVERBtheDETwayNOUNhePRONsoonADVlostVERBhimselfPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 tailordet
2veryveryADV_3 brightadvmod
3brightbrightADJDegree=Pos6 tailoramod
4activeactiveADJDegree=Pos6 tailoramod
5youngyoungADJDegree=Pos6 tailoramod
6tailortailorNOUNNumber=Sing8 setnsubj
7onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult8 setadvmod
8setsetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9offoffADP_8 setcompound:prt
10ononSCONJ_12 travelsmark
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 travelsnmod:poss
12travelstravelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 setadvcl
13,,PUNCT_15 ledpunct
14whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel15 lednsubj
15ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 travelsparataxis
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 ledobj
17intointoADP_19 woodcase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 wooddet
19woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing15 ledobl
20,,PUNCT_26 knowpunct
21andandCCONJ_26 knowcc
22asasSCONJ_26 knowmark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 knownsubj
24diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 knowaux
25notnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 knowadvmod
26knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf15 ledconj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 waydet
28waywayNOUNNumber=Sing26 knowobj
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 lostnsubj
30soonsoonADVDegree=Pos31 lostadvmod
31lostloseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 wayacl:relcl
32himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes31 lostobj
33..PUNCT_8 setpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1set offpasta bright active young tailoronce propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2travelpresenta bright active young tailor not said herevn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3leadpasttailora woodvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into wood=Destination
4not knowpast · do-supporttailorthe wayvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
5losepasttailortailorsoon propertyvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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